11-letter words containing y, n
- runnability — to move with haste; act quickly: Run upstairs and get the iodine.
- safety zone — A safety zone is a place in the middle of a road crossing where you can wait before you cross the other half of the road.
- saginaw bay — an arm of Lake Huron, off the E coast of Michigan. 60 miles (97 km) long.
- saint's day — a day of celebration commemorating a particular saint.
- salmonberry — the salmon-colored, edible fruit of a raspberry, Rubus spectabilis, of the Pacific coast of North America.
- sand myrtle — an evergreen shrub, Leiophyllum buxifolium, of the heath family, native to the eastern U.S., having simple, leathery leaves and clusters of white or pink flowers.
- sarcenchyme — the connective tissue of some sponges
- satanophany — a manifestation or incarnation of Satan; demonic possession
- saturninity — sluggish in temperament; gloomy; taciturn.
- say amen to — to express strong approval of or support for (an assertion, hope, etc)
- scamblingly — in a scambling, noisy, or intrusive manner
- scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- scent spray — perfume that comes in an aerosol bottle
- schenectady — a city in E New York, on the Mohawk River.
- scientology — the philosophy of the Church of Scientology, a nondenominational movement founded in the US in the 1950s, which emphasizes self-knowledge as a means of realizing full spiritual potential
- scorchingly — in a scorching manner
- scorpionfly — any of several harmless insects of the order Mecoptera, the male of certain species having a reproductive structure that resembles the sting of a scorpion.
- scoundrelly — having the character of a scoundrel; unscrupulous; villainous.
- scrapepenny — a person who is stingy; a miser
- scrawlingly — in a scrawling manner
- screamingly — If you say that something is, for example, screamingly funny or screamingly boring, you mean that it is extremely funny or extremely boring.
- sdeignfully — disdainfully
- searchingly — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
- seasonality — the state or quality of being seasonal or dependent on the seasons: the seasonality of Halloween costumes.
- second city — Chicago, Ill.
- secondarily — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
- sedimentary — of, relating to, or of the nature of sediment.
- seditionary — of or relating to sedition; seditious.
- seismonasty — a nastic movement in response to shock, esp the rapid folding of the leaflets of the sensitive plant due to changes in turgor pressure caused by vibration
- semimonthly — made, occurring, done, or published twice a month.
- send flying — to dismiss or cause to depart hurriedly
- senior year — final year of school or college
- senselessly — destitute or deprived of sensation; unconscious.
- sensibility — capacity for sensation or feeling; responsiveness or susceptibility to sensory stimuli.
- sensitively — endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
- sensitivity — the state or quality of being sensitive; sensitiveness.
- sensorially — with respect to sensation; in a sensorial way
- sentry duty — the duty of serving as a sentry
- serendipity — an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
- set eyes on — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- seventh-day — designating certain Christian denominations that make Saturday their chief day of rest and religious observance: Seventh-Day Adventists.
- seventy-one — a cardinal number, 70 plus 1.
- seventy-six — a cardinal number, 70 plus 6.
- seventy-two — a cardinal number, 70 plus 2.
- sex hygiene — a branch of hygiene concerned with sex and sexual behavior as they relate to individual and community well-being.
- shaggy-mane — an edible inky-cap mushroom, Coprinus comatus, having an elongated, shaggy pileus.
- shanty town — ghetto, slum
- shcharansky — (Natan) Anatoly [nah-tahn an-uh-toh-lee;; Russian uh-nuh-taw-lyee] /nɑˈtɑn ˌæn əˈtoʊ li;; Russian ʌ nʌˈtɔ lyi/ (Show IPA), born 1948, Soviet mathematician and human-rights activist, in Israel since 1986.
- shiveringly — in a shivering manner, usually from cold or fright
- short jenny — an in-off into a middle pocket